John Flavel Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• God's unspotted faithfulness never failed any soul that durst trust himself in its arms.

  John Flavel

  Soul, Arms, Faithfulness

  John Flavel (1820). “The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon”, p.280

• As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit of Christ is the fountain of all spiritual life; and until he quicken us and infuse the principle of the divine life into our souls, we can put forth no hand, or vital act of faith, to lay hold upon Jesus Christ.

  John Flavel

  Spiritual, Jesus, Blood

  John Flavel (1701). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel: ... to which are added alphabetical tables of the texts of scripture explained, and indexes of the principal matters contained in both volumes”, p.279

• He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him.

  John Flavel

  Healing, Water, Soul

  John Flavel (1770). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ...”, p.322

• We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest in any work or duty of our own, but we may find it in Christ, whom faith apprehends for justification and salvation.

  John Flavel

  Mean, Thinking, Soul

  John Flavel (1996). “The Method of Grace: How the Holy Spirit Works”, p.175, Hartland Publications

• Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action.

  John Flavel

  Soul, Quality, Principles

  John Flavel (1875). “The Method of Grace, in the Holy Spirits Applying to the Souls of Men the Eternal Redemption Contrived by the Father, and Accomplished by the Son (etc.)”, p.4

• That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works.

  John Flavel

  Soul, Spirit, Christ

• Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . .

  John Flavel

  Ocean, Essence, Rivers

  John Flavel (1699). “The Method of Grace in Bringing Home the Eternal Redemption ... Being the Second Part of Gospel Redemption: Wherein the Great Mystery of Our Union and Communion with Christ is Opened and Applied ...”, p.238

• Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.

  John Flavel

  Jesus, Soul, Desire

• Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the hue and make them white.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Weather, White

  John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.407

• Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

  John Flavel

  Soul, Suffering, Affliction

• Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

  John Flavel

  Soul, Desire, Christ

  John Flavel (1875). “The Method of Grace, in the Holy Spirits Applying to the Souls of Men the Eternal Redemption Contrived by the Father, and Accomplished by the Son (etc.)”, p.191

• Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ; the nearer the soul approaches Him, and the longer it lives in the enjoyhment of Him, still the sweeter and more desirable He becomes.

  John Flavel

  Distance, Soul, Christ

• O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am going into the solemn presence of God about business of everlasting importance!

  John Flavel

  Soul, Importance, Everlasting

• My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds.

  John Flavel

  Soul, World, Thousand

  John Flavel (1698). “Pneumatologia: A Treatise of the Soul of Man: Wherein the Divine Original, Excellent and Immortal Nature of the Soul are Opened ...”, p.42

• No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

  John Flavel

  Prayer, Self, Soul

  John Flavel (1875). “The Method of Grace, in the Holy Spirits Applying to the Souls of Men the Eternal Redemption Contrived by the Father, and Accomplished by the Son (etc.)”, p.341

• The soul of man, like the bird in the shell, is still growing or ripening in sin or grace, till at last the shell breaks by death, and the soul flies away to the piece it is prepared for, and where it must abide forever.

  John Flavel

  Men, Bird, Forever

• Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little.care and thought about it.

  John Flavel

  Grateful, Forever, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 560), 1895.

• The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

  John Flavel

  Children, Soul, Dignity

  John Flavel (1698). “A treatise of the soul of man: wherein the divine original, excellent and immortal nature of the soul are opened; its love and inclination to the body, with the necessity of its separation from it, considered and improved; the existence, operations, and states of separated souls, both in heaven and hell, immediately after death, asserted, discussed, and variously applied; divers knotty and difficult questions about departed souls both philosophical, and theological, stated and determined; the invaluable preciousness of human souls, and the various artifices of Satan (their professed enemy) to destroy them, discovered; and the great duty and interest of all men, seasonably and heartily to comply with the most great and gracious design of the Father, Son, and Spirit, for the salvation of their souls, argued and pressed”, p.35

• One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

  John Flavel

  Men, Soul, Thousand

  John Flavel (1677). “Divine Conduct and Saint Indeed”, p.134

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